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CVE-2004-0850

HIGH CVSS: 7.2 Published: 2004-12-23 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Star before 1.5_alpha46 does not drop the effective user ID (euid) before calling external programs, which could allow local users to gain privileges by modifying the RSH environment variable to reference a malicious program.

Affected Platforms

Joerg Schilling Star Tape Archiver

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References